In the first round of the past FA Cup, Guangzhou sent a youth army to compete, but unfortunately it was eliminated early. Before this match, there were rumors that captain Zheng Zhi would lead the team to the game as a manager, but in the end, it was Liu Zhiyu, the assistant of the former coach, who led the team to play.
As for the veteran captain Zheng Zhi, he also has a new development plan, according to the famous football record Qiu Yejin, Zheng Zhi recently returned to his alma mater, Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education, to apply for a football teacher position, and took a trial teaching class with students. After the course, both the school leaders and the students gave Zheng Zhi's lectures a high praise.
In fact, as early as July this year, Zheng Zhi went to Shanghai to participate in the B-level coaching course organized by the Chinese Football Association, and thus missed many Chinese Super League games. It's all about preparing for his post-retirement work. Therefore, when Ka Shuai left, the biggest voice from the outside world was to hope that Zheng Zhi would take over smoothly. In the past two years, Zheng Zhi has also acted as the manager for many times, and even served as the general manager of the club for a short time, but he finally chose to stay in the green field.
However, today, there is a huge crisis in the team, even the most loyal players, but also to start to plan for the future, applying for football teachers is also a new attempt. In his career, Zheng Zhi has worked as a centre-back, full-back, midfielder and even forward, and won the Asian Footballer of the Year. Having worked as a teaching assistant, acting manager and general manager at the management level, and now more likely to become a university teacher, this series of resumes can only be described as legendary.
Even at the age of 41, Zheng Zhi still maintains a high appearance rate this season, except for attending coaching courses and missing for a period of time, other games have basically been played, and he has tried to play all over the field. Therefore, after seeing the performance of the national football team in the round of 12, many fans even called on Li Tie to recall the old captain, even if it is the top game in Asia, playing half-time is no problem at all.
Zheng Zhi, whose contract expires at the end of this year, no matter what options he has in the future, we Guangzhou fans will wish him good luck.